Excerpt from The Defence of Stonington (Connecticut): Against a British Squadron, August 9th to 12th, 1814
The repulse of a British squadron, at Stonington by a few undisciplined volunteers, having only two effective guns, imperfectly protected by a low earth-work, - and this repulse accomplished without the loss of a single life, - was not the least glorious achievement of the War of 1812-14. The fiftieth anniversary of the action is close at hand. Few who witnessed, - only three or four who participated in it, survive.
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